Calibration and performance of the STAR Muon Telescope Detector using cosmic rays

C Yang ,D Cebra ,Jianping Cheng ,Brady Bowen ,M Calderón De La Barca Sánchez ,K Xin ,G Eppley ,C Flores ,A Kesich ,S Mioduszewski ,Y Wang ,P Bhattarari ,Hannah Carson ,L Ruan ,F J M Geurts ,Z Ahammed ,S Biswas ,S Yang ,Xinjie Huang ,J M Butterworth ,C M Du ,J Schambach ,B Huang ,A Banerjee ,M J M Codrington ,Y H Mohamed ,C Li ,Y J Sun ,S Chattopadhyay ,A Jentsch ,Y J Li ,Zun-Lei Xu ,G W Hoffmann ,T Nussbaum ,H F Chen ,W J Llope ,A Roy ,Xinmei Zhu

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2014.05.075

Calibration and performance of the STAR Muon Telescope Detector using cosmic rays

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2014.05.075

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Journal: Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A	Publication Date: May 27, 2014
Citations: 16

Affiliation: University of Science and Technology of China, University of California, Davis, Tsinghua University, The University of Texas at Austin, Rice University, Texas A&M University, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Institute of Modern Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory

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We report the timing and spatial resolution from the Muon Telescope Detector (MTD) installed in the STAR experiment at RHIC. Cosmic ray muons traversing the STAR detector have an average transverse momentum of 6GeV/c. Due to their very small multiple scattering, these cosmic muons provide an ideal tool to calibrate the detectors and measure their timing and spatial resolution. The values obtained were ~100ps and ~1–2cm. These values are comparable to those obtained from cosmic-ray bench tests and test beams.

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